November 28, 2012

Place In Time Calendar Tutorial Series: Part 3 February

Hello G45ers,

Welcome to another fantastic day here at the Graphic 45 blog! We are so happy that you are joining us as we continue our super fun calendar tutorial featuring our Place in Time collection! Today we will be sharing Arlene Cuevas's gorgeous tutorial for creating your February calendar page. As we all know, February is the month of Valentine's Day! Arlene's tutorial is definitely filled with a lot of love and beauty. So get ready to have some serious fun today! We also have another winner to announce for this week's Place in Time contest! We are giving away this amazing Place in Time prize pack every day during this fantastic tutorial series! To enter to win this fabulous prize just leave us a blog or Facebook comment. Today's randomly chosen winner was picked from our Facebook comments. And the winner is...

-Cheryl Norton: "Thank you again for another opportunity to win; love the page today."

Congratulations, Cheryl! Please email us with your shipping information at info@g45papers.com to claim your prize! We will be announcing another randomly chosen winner on tomorrow's blog so stay tuned!

Just in case you miss a day or two during this amazing Place in Time tutorial series you can still find all the tutorials on one place! Each day we will add these tutorials to our Place in Time Calendar Tutorial Series category on our blog. That way you can find all the tutorials in one easy place! Here's the link!

Here are the beautiful images of Arlene's finished calendar page for February. Remember that every page in this tutorial series is meant to go into the Graphic 45 12x12 Easel Albums! This will be page 3 of your Easel Album. Follow along with Arlene's fun video and text tutorial to create this splendid February calendar page!

Step 5: Take some chipboard pieces
from the coordinating Place in Time Chipboard Die-cuts 2 set to accent your
page.

Step 6: Start to slowly pull the page together, using the February
Foundation page as your background or base. I use my 3M ATG gun to adhere basic
paper elements to the page such as this border…

Use the border
strip to accent the bottom of your page, like this… it adds a nice “pop” of red
to pull the page together.

Step 7: I use Tombo Mono Adhesive to adhere a heart doily to my
calendar page… this will be one layer of many.

Press the doily
firmly onto the page to adhere all the edges down.

Step 8: Start to position the elements onto
the page so you know where you want things to go. I typically don’t adhere
anything down until I know exactly where on the page I’d like it to go.

Use dimensionals
to make some of the elements on the page “pop.”

Layer away!

Step 9: Add some additional elements to the calendar page using the
coordinating Chipboard Die-Cuts 1 set. Here I select the vintage lady…

Step 11: Use the Place in Time coordinating Alpha
sticker sheet to add the year “2013” to your calendar…

Tip: Use a ruler or straight edge to line up
your stickers before laying down on your page. This helps keep the
letters/numbers straight.

Step 12: Add some lace to add a touch of
daintiness and softness to the page.

To adhere the
lace to the page, I opted to use my Surebonder fine-tip glue gun. This type of
adhesive holds elements to a scrapbook page nicely, but you have to be quick
since the hot glue dries super fast! Make sure the glue is extra hot when you
apply the lace.

Step 13: Add another layer of lace to add
dimension…

Step 14: Add Graphic 45 metal
Staples to the page to add some interest. Here I’m applying a metal hinge to a
spot on the page you wouldn’t think makes sense… but it works!

Step 15: Use Glossy Accents or a strong adhesive
to adhere metal elements to your page. Here I am using Glossy Accents to adhere
a Stamped Metal brad to the calendar page.

There you have it, G45ers, another fantastic Place in Time tutorial! We want to thank Arlene Cuevas for her incredible work today! Join us tomorrow as we share the Betto Cesare's tutorial for March! We will also have another winner to announce for our Place in Time contest! It's going to be so fun! We hope to see you then. Have a delightful day, G45ers!

Really beautiful calendar page. I'm doing an 8x8 right now and it doesn't leave much space for embellishments, but I like seeing the 12x12 how much more you can use up all those amazing cut outs. Thanks Amy

I'm sooo excited about the calendar pages!!! I love making calendars and people love getting them as gifts!! You couldn't have come out with a better series!!! But you keep doing just that.... Every one is better than the last!!! Thanks G45 for inspiring my calendar work!!!